Vegan Chain Veggie Grill Opens (With Free Food!) in Pasadena Saturday

Do you like free food? If so, make sure to visit Veggie Grill in Pasadena at 11 a.m. Saturday, as a grand opening celebration for the vegan chain's newest location includes $2,500 in grub that won't cost a penny.

Kind of.

Beginning at 11 a.m., the first 50 customers in line at the Pasadena restaurant will each be given $50 gift cards. Sadly, LA Weekly can neither confirm nor deny that the 51st person in line has to wash dishes all day while listening to the Frozen soundtrack.

Opened in Irvine in 2006, the Pasadena location marks the 26th Veggie Grill restaurant on the West Coast, which makes it one of the largest vegan chains in existence (Native Foods also has 26). While one might assume veganism and chain restaurants are ideologically opposed and therefore the food must suck, one would be wrong, as the grub at Veggie Grill is pretty good for a chain or a mom-and-pop.